Lunch at Zum Zum Carlton North for Middle Eastern cooking with an emphasis on Lebanese.

Zum Zum is the middle of the cafes in the interesting North Carlton shopping area. This means that on a nice day you can sit outside and be part of the atmosphere. I find this atmosphere unique to Carlton North. It is one of Melbourne’s places that I never tire of visiting. The food at Zum Zum is some of the best Middle Eastern food I have had. I would go there even if the locality wasn’t so special.

Zum Zum serves Middle Eastern food and more particularly Lebanese. It is a few weeks since I have had Lebanese food and after lunch at Zum Zum I won’t leave it so long between indulging again.

We arrived about noon for lunch and grabbed a table that was outside and partly shaded, sipped a wine while we thought of food.

The wine was a generous pour.

There is a special lunch menu with very reasonable prices and we chose from that. I photographed it. I hope you are able to check it out from this image.

We chose Silver beet rolls with chickpeas, rice, tomatoes and spices to share. These are something like dolmates but more flavoursome than the ones I am used to.

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